Inv. n°: CL818

John F. Kennedy

Signed lower right, "E de Kooning". Abstract Expressionism, Portrait.

h. 243.84 x w. 121.92 cm
1963
Oil on canvas

Provenance

  • Estate of the Artist
  • Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, 05/01/2004
  • Conrad Fried, New York
  • Galerie l'Enfant, Georetown
  • Private Collection, New York
  • Acquired at Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, 01/01/2020

Publications

  • B. B. Fortune, A. E. Gibson and S. Cupic (ed.), Elaine de Kooning Portraits, National Portrait gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and De Monico Books, Washington, April 1, 2015, p. 119, fig. 3.7, p. 124, fig. 3.12
  • M. Randall, "Elaine de Kooning Paints a Portrait", New Mexico Mercury, April 17, 2015 12:00 AM
  • S. Stamberg, "For Artist Elaine de Kooning, Painting Was A Verb, Not A Noun", Morning Edition, May 13, 2013 12:00 AM
  • S. Cannon, "JFK Portrait Explained in New Elaine de Kooning Biography", The Boston Globe Correspond, January 18, 2018 12:00 AM
  • M. Gabriel (ed.), Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, Little, Borwn And Company, New York, September 25, 2018 12:00 AM, p. 528.12
  • Heather James Fine Art, Exhibition - Elaine de Kooning, 01/01/2020, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.heatherjames.com/exhibitions/exhibition-art-detail/?inv=12197&eventid=132&ref=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGVhdGhlcmphbWVzLmNvbS9leGhpYml0aW9ucy9lbGFpbmUtZGUta29vbmluZy8=
  • "Restoration Conversations: Women Artists and the Abstract Revolution", The Florentine You Tube, April 21, 2021 12:00 AM, [On-line]. Available at: https://youtu.be/tgdWylCx1Uk, 1:12:40
  • H. Farrell, "In the Gallery at Home with Christian and Florence Levett", The Florentine, Italy, May 1, 2021, no. 278, p. 21
  • H. Farrell & L. Falcone, "At Home with Christian and Florence Levett: Collecting Art and Women's Abstract Expressionism", The Florentine.net, May 5, 2021 12:00 AM, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.theflorentine.net/2021/05/05/at-home-gallerychristian- florence-levett/
  • S. Moore, "Amercian Expressed", Apollo The International Art Magazine, October 1, 2021, p. 66
  • EIFICFinal, March 1, 2022, [On-line]. Available at: 17:01-17:04
  • Ellen G. Landau & Joan M. Marter, Abstract Expressionists: The Women, London, 2023, p. 202 (fig. 24), p. 236

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